Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-27

trary.
The driving took place two or three
times week. He had a handsome span
OF horses and buggy. ! suspected moth
lhg wrong, as they always returned in
time, If not for her dinner, tor her ap-
pearance at the Casino. l had every
confidence in the doctor. One night
when they did not return L was greatly
worried. They were away all night
long, and Agnes did not come home until
7 in the morning. The doctor said, how
ever, that they had driven a long ways
fallen IN fit. They had to cross
the river and came home by
way Of Jersey City and had to
spend the night there. This was but the
beginning, however, of a closer and closer
acquaintanceship with the doctor, and a
gradual sundering of the ties that bound
her home. In August she went away to
live elsewhere, the doctor saying to a
gentleman whom l sent to him that 1t
was on account OF some property which
| her grandfather wished to leave her, and
| which, in some way, necessitated her
! leaving us. She came to see me every
week for a while, and the rest Of the
story you already Know"
| The rest OF the story Is a most remarka-
| bic one. When Miss Folsom left her
mother to live elsewhere DR.. Cate left the
| Barrett house, where he had been living,
! and went to live elsewhere, too. He had
! been three years in New York, had estab-
lished fine practice, had an excellent
| reputation as gentleman and aphyslcian
| of the omeopathic-eclectic school, aud
also had a wife and child at Cape Cod,
| Mass. Concerning his wife and child he
| told Mrs. Folsom when she finally taxed
| him with it that he had separated from
| his wife, that they had no love for each
| other, and he had ceased to support her.
| The only obstacle to the smoOthness
| with which the relations between the
| doctor and the daughter advanced was
\ her sutton, William j. Baldwin, who is
| coal dealer in Brooklyn. Baldwin was
| passionately attached to Miss Folsom,
and was so blind as TO go to the willy doc
! tor for advice. The doctor gave it to
| him, told him girls had freaks and he
| needn't worry, and even went so far as to
| talk learnedly as to the best means for
| him to pursue to arouse or retain her
affection. Little by little, however,
Baldwin learned that he was
| fifth wheel on cupid's coach that
was beginning to drive fast and furiously.
| Then he began to tell what the doctor
had told him, the physician having said,
among other things. that he had no feel
ing whatever for Miss Aggie, This
aroused Miss Aggie's ire and she de-
nonnced 1t as untrue, demanding that
| Baldwin should repeat it in the DOCTORS
! presence. The result was that Mrs. Fol-
som. Aggie and Baldwin called on the
doctor at his office, 81 West Forty-second
street. Miss Aggie demanded:
"Did you say to Mr.. Baldwin that you
| had no love for mel?
The cOrnered doctor said he had said 80
to Baldwin for reasons, but it was not
true. He did love her.
"Did you say" continued she, chat
h ILxi
IL did not" said Cate.
"You did" said Baldwin.
81 did not"
"YOu lie."
The doctor. who is six feet high and an
athlete, struck Baldwin, and then, accord
ing to the mothers account, choked him
till he was black in the face.
After this Baldwin gave up hope and
disappeared. When " Erminie" gave
place to the Violet Cameron Company
Miss Folsom refused to 60 on the road with
the company and threw up her engage
ment. She said she was tired and wanted
a rest. AT her mothers solicitation she
agreed to accompany her to Boston on
visit to her father, Henry NJ. Folsom, who
is ship broker there. They reached Bos-
ton on a Thursday in the latter part of
September. The next morning Agnes re-
ceiyed the following telegram:
1t is important that see you at once. Can
you come onr JOHN a. MCCAULL.
In response to this Agnes started that
afternoon for New York. Her father
thought nothing wrong OF it until the fol
lowing Tuesday, when Mrs. Folsom came
to the office in cab. greatly excited, to
tell him that they must go at once to New
York. She had letter from Agnes, stat
ing that they need not expect TO see her
for time, as she wanted to be alone.
!, tln.v
Wallack's Theatre, and there found Me-
Caul. His greeting was: "How is Ag-
mes? l haven't seen her for six MONTHS"
and be instantly denounced the telegram
as forgery.
The father and mother then went
straight after Cate, but did not find him
until the next morning at his office. The
doctor and Agnes came in together and
were greatly surprised to see their visit
ors. The father went outside with his
daughter while the mother talked with
Cate. Agnes said there was nothing
wrong, She simply wanted to be alone
and wanted the Doctors advice. The doc
tor was always the sm0othest of takers,
and QuieIed to some extent Mrs. FOlsom's
fears. They failed to get her address,
however, and the next day, when the
father called on the doctor to get it the
latter begged his pardon, but Miss Fol-
o"lh h0N AOtNSS'SN HAAA w AA'S ~ W NJ
one.
Mrs. Folsom went to Boston broken
down and lay In bed for twenty-five
weeks. When everybody, doctors in
cluded. had given her up she rallied and
recovered. When scarcely able TO 90 out
she came TO New York with a friend, Mrs.
Howard. She discovered where her
daughter was living, at 338 West Fifty
eighth street, but was refused admitlance
there. She then took room in the Hotel
Gladstone, whose windows commanded
her daughters residence, and watched.
See saw, the following Sunday, the
doctor leave the house in company with
Agnes. Then, with her lawyer. William
Ii. Mundy, she made a second call at the
house. Mrs. MastersOn, the landady,
was out. Tho bell was answered BY
girl and the mother walked by her and
went up the stairs, in spite of the girls
protestations. AS she opened the front
bedroom door on the first floor her daugh-
ter VINO had heard the talk and recog-
nized her, ran into the bedroom in the
rear, which Is Gates. The mother fol-
lowed, and when Mundy reached the top
of the stairs, the daughter was endeavor-
ing to push her mother ouf OF the rear
bedroom door into the hall, crying:
mamma, | can't see you; ] can't
see you" A scene followed, Miss Folsom
angrily venting her rage on Mundy. The